2022 Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for an Associate in Delaware For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for an Associate in Delaware For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Public Administration & Social Service is the 14th most popular major in the country with 97,666 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, public administration and social service graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $39,142 and had an average of $32,304 in loans still to pay off.

Across Delaware, there were 477 public administration and social service graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,433 and $33,695 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 141 public administration and social service graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,207 and $14,625 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great public administration and social service programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the public administration and social service program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for an Associate in Delaware For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for an Associate in Delaware For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for an Associate in Delaware For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service in Delaware (With Aid)

#1

Delaware Technical Community College - Terry

Dover, Delaware

#1 in overall quality

$8,824 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Delaware Technical Community College - Terry. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Public Administration & Social Service Schools for an Associate in Delaware For Those Getting Aid. Dover, Delaware is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s public administration and social service degrees to 141 students in 2019-2020.

Delaware Tech also made our “Best Public Administration & Social Service Associate Degree Schools in Delaware” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $8,824 for Delaware Associate Degree Public Administration & Social Service students with aid per year to attend Delaware Technical Community College - Terry.

Read more about Public Administration & Social Service at Delaware Tech

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service in the Middle Atlantic Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Public Administration & Social Service (With Aid)

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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